Happy Birthday Aaron!

I hope you are enjoying your birthday! Sorry I haven't been able to do more for you. I love you very much! Happy Birthday!

I almost forgot...

Today is Leonora's 13 month birthday. I know it's not a particularly significant birthday, but as long as I'm on here, I might as well mention it! She's been 1 for a whole month!

So, I'm feeling a bit on the blah side today. I'm tired. I keep changing my mind about potty training William. I mean, I want him potty trained, but I just keep thinking that any of my efforts are futile. This weekend we're going up to Layton for my sister's open house. I don't know how much it will set him back, but I'm guessing it will. Then we are planning to visit Aaron's family in California for about a week in July. If I worked at it, I might get him potty trained before the trip to CA, but then, what about the long car ride? Do I just let him pee his pull ups? Do I stop every hour to sit him on some gross gas station toilet? Or should I just wait until we get back? These are just a few of the questions I've been asking myself. Hmmm... maybe I'm just putting it off because I'm tired.

Amber and CJ

So I've been really busy helping out with my sister's wedding and catching up on everything I should have been doing while I was helping out with my sister's wedding. Anyway, she's married now! She and her new hubby have been honeymooning in Southern California, and soon will be settling into their new apartment in Layton, Utah. The wedding was great, and I must say that my mom and I and everyone else who pitched in did a fabuluous job of decorating for her reception. Notice the lovely decorations behind Amber and CJ in the picture? I think we did rather well!

Feeling pretty good!

Well, I'm still recovering from my cold, but I've been feeling pretty good anyway. I've been staying home a lot more lately in an attempt to potty train William. This is not going spectacularly well, but he will use the toilet when I supervise. Anyway, since I've been home more, I've been cleaning more. Not that cleaning is a lot of fun or anything, but knowing my house is presentable makes me feel better about myself-and honestly makes being home more enjoyable. Things never stay clean for very long, and I don't like to stress out about it, so I've been trying to focus on just one room everyday. Then if I have more energy or just feel like it, I'll tidy up here and there too. Today I got my living room looking pretty good. It's not perfect, but presentable. This makes me smile! :)

Interesting site on homebirth and related subjects

I got a link off this site from another blog, and thought that at least 1 or 2 of you would find interesting. Here's the link! http://journeytohomebirth.blogspot.com/

Different Shades of green

I decided that it was time for a new look. I was going to post something yesterday, but spent all my time updateing instead.
Well, Leonora turned one on Saturday. Aaron had to work, so we postponed the birthday celebration until Sunday. My family came over and we watched Leonora open presents and demolish her cake. She even ate some of it! My mom took pictures, but I haven't gotten any from her yet. I'll post them when I do.
After the party, we went to a barbeque with some of Aaron's co-workers. We had fun relaxing and chating, and also got to look at a new house that our hosts' parents are building next door to their house. It will be an incredibly nice house when it's finished. It has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a library, office, exercise room, rec room, theater, and dinning room large enough for a group of 25. Oh, and I almost forgot-a "Harry Potter Room" under the stairs that forms a passage from the entry to the dining room. Very cool. I asked how big it was. The owner said, "I don't really know. Somewhere between 8 and 10 thousand square feet." Anyway, it was a lot of fun to walk through.
Since then, I seem to have gotten a nice little cold that is causeing my voice to disappear. I tride to scream last night when I found William dumping the last of the milk into an overflowing cup on the kitchen floor. The sound that came out of me was not normal. I think I startled him because he got up, knocked the cup of milk over and cried for the next ten minutes. After all that, Aaron agreed to let me out of the house. We were invited to dinner with some friends, but didn't have a babysitter, so he sent me out and stayed home to put the kids to bed. I had a very enjoyable evening-in spite of the a-symetrical nature of the resturant we ate at.
Well, my posts are getting really long. perhaps if I post more often, it will help.

scrambled

Okay, I'm going to try to play a little catch up for this week... I can't remember what days everything happened, but they all happened sometime in the last week...
Well, a couple days ago, I was asking William what he wanted for breakfast. Normally he requests cereal, but he didn't that day, so I started naming off other choices. I hardly ever make eggs, but I offered it as a choice and was surprised when he said he wanted an egg. So I made him an egg. I thought I was being such a good mom! I even cut it up and stuck it in the freezer to cool it off! I was quite disappointed when he told me he didn't want "that kind of egg." Confused, I asked what kind of egg it was that he wanted. "I want a Chocolate Egg!" he tells me. Of course. Silly me. Unfortunatly for him, I don't keep chocolate eggs in stock.
Leonora has also started walking this week. She just decided to get back up when she fell one day, and she hasn't crawled since! Of course she still falls a lot, but she never stays down long.
Yesterday, I went to the What Women Want Expo with my mom. It was pretty fun, except when Leonora got really fussy and didn't want to stay in the stroller. I got some cute barettes and entered lots of drawings and got lots of cards and flyers. Then I went to Hurricane and went to a friends wedding reception. I found out this evening that I actually won one of the drawings for a free "candy bouquet." That was pretty cool.
Today, we went to our friend Toby's graduation party. It was fun, and the food was very good. There was a little kiddie pool set up with water in it, and of course that was the first thing that Leonora saw. With some help, I managed to keep her from diving in head first. Toward the end of the party, some of the other kids were getting into trouble jumping in the pool, so their mom dumped most of the water out, but left a little at the bottom. Leonora took her chance when I wasn't watching to toddle over and plop her diapered and fully clothed little bum into the pool! Oh, she had a lot of fun! Of course, it wasn't terribly fun when she had to get changed, but I think it was worth it for her.
I think that's all for now (folks)!

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Vote for mine or enter your own

So I randomly found this cute kids contest online. I started voting and realized, "hey, my kids are at least as cute as these ones!" So I entered them! Anyway, if you'd like to vote for them, here are the links: http://bix.yahoo.com/entry/48761?emailInviteFrom=karalynlund

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Visual DNA

Another blogging friend had this on her blog the other day, so I thought I'd try it out and see what I got. Anyway, here are the results-hopefully this works!

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Walking Into the Woods

Tonight Aaron and I got to go on a date. We hired my brother to babysit, got some dinner at Cafe Rio (yummy!), and went to see Dixie State College's production of Into the Woods. This is one of my favorite musicals, so I was pretty happy to get to see it. It was pretty good. The beginning was a little rough, and some of the cast didn't really impress me, but there were some truly wonderful "moments."
At intermission, I called to see how the kids were treating Morgan, and he informed me that Leonora actually took a few steps on her own! She had taken a step here and there, without knowing she was doing it, but never more than one at a time, and never intentionally. So after the show, I tried to get her to walk to Morgan again. Of course, she refused to budge when I set her down, but when we changed places, she was quite willing to walk the three step to my arms! She walked once more to me and once to Aaron before he had to take Morgan home. It was exciting! Even though I know this means more trouble for me, I'm very happy for her newest achievement!

A few new leaves

There's a nice big shade tree outside my living room window. A week ago it was pretty bare and dead looking, but today it's green! Because we live on the second story of our building, looking out the living room window is like looking out of a tree house. We're right up in the branches and the new leaves. It's really refreshing to lay on the couch and stare up into the tree. I've been told that green is a relaxing color, but I don't think I've ever really appriciated that fact until now.

Things I forgot to tell you

This week has been a busy one. Leonora finally 'cut' her first tooth! She's been sick on top of teething, so she's been pretty fussy. Nights have been hard. On Monday, she also celebrated her 10 month birthday! We even sang. Sorry I don't have a picture- my camera is short a battery cover, which makes it difficult to use. Tuesday was busy! I chopped off my hair- well, I let someone else do it. It's nice and short, and only about a week late for the first days of summer weather. I also went paper shopping with Melissa. That was fun. Wednesday I got to hang out with a couple of different friends. I told you about yesterday morning, but since then, I bought a couple of shirts (I love clearance racks). There nice summery shirts, which is good. After being in Seattle for so long, I didn't realize how few summery shirts I had! After that, Aaron and I went to see "Premonition" while my wonderful brother Morgan watched our kids. That was nice. Probably not the worlds best movie ever, but it was good to have a little time just the two of us. Morgan was lucky. Leonora slept the whole time. Well, I think that fills in all the gaps- at least the most recent gaps!

Happy Thursday

I've gotten some complaints about the lack of posts to my site lately, so I'm posting something...
Other than the bad violin playing, I've had a really nice morning. We took our '93 Sable to get the windshield replaced around 8 this morning. Once that's done, it should pass the safety inspection and we can actually get it registered in the state of Utah. After dropping the car off, we went to I-HOP for breakfast. I haven't been there in a really long time! They have really good omelets-one of which I had. William wasn't too happy. He prefers Kix cereal to any other food groups lately. He did finally eat one of his pancakes. While we were there we saw a friend who works there. Hadn't seen her in a while, so that was nice. Once our tummies were full (or perhaps a little over filled) we came home. Aaron's been watching a Dream Theater concert on DVD. Between the bad violins and the effeminate moves of the lead singer, it's kept us pretty entertained. William has been keeping us refreshed with "orange juice" from his new Tupperware kid's beverage set, and Leonora has been trying to steal the remote with moderate success. (Maybe she doesn't like the violins either.)
Oh, and the best part of the morning- Aaron got to change the poopy diaper! I love his days off...

I've got a pickle

Well, it's been a while since I posted anything. some new news is that we are finally in our own apartment! Also, Aaron just quit at the dealership he was working at and is starting March 1st at a new one in St. George. We both feel that things will be better with this new dealership. Anyway, since Aaron had a few days off between jobs, and we have tax return money handy, we decided to jump in the car and head to California where a bunch of our stuff has been patiently waiting for us to pick it up. We're staying with Aaron's family, and I think they've enjoyed having their grandkids around for a couple days. Lately, William has been telling me that he's a pickle. I think he got this from me. Whenever he'd get into a little mischief, I'd call him a turkey or a pickle, so he's decided that he is a pickle. He also dislikes being called a little boy and always insists that he is actually a big boy if I call him little. So, last night we were all sitting around and Aaron's sister asked William if he was a little pickle. William said, "No! I'm not a little pickle! I'm a big pickle!" Well, I can hardly disagree with that statement!

Figured it out! & Leonora's pics

So, in the previous post, I was trying to figure out how to get my pictures on my blog since the normal means were not working. Anyway, that picuture worked! So I'm trying it again with the pictures I was trying to post in the first place! BTW, the previous post's picture is a lovely little bit of cloud over Hurricane, Utah back in July.

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Hi!howarya'll?

So, I realized the other day that it's been... hmm... a long time since I posted. Well, I've been busy! I've been getting my Tupperware business going. I've been working on getting more than one party a month, and so far I've had two and one more on the way! Whoohoo! :) Okay, I might be pathetic, but it is brining in a little money. I'm hoping to get to $1000 in personal sales this month so I can get a 10% bonus. Anyway, things are going well, Leonora is as beautiful as ever and William ia as troublesome. Aaron's been able to sell a few cars, and evetually things will be settled enough for me to post more often (haha... yeah, right!)

More cute kids

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I know you all are are probably in shock with all the pictures, but I finally found my usb cord and got my pictures uploaded today. Anyway, this is Leonora with another friend's baby. Wegot together for a little picinic at the park. Aren't they cute?

Little Flirts!

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This is my friend's little boy with Leonora. I think he's got his first (well, maybe second) crush! he was giving her kisses, and she was loving his attention!